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Date:
2016-05-06

Author Name: Phaedra Trethan

Source: Courier-Post

Pizza and life lessons at Camden school

CAMDEN - Pointing to his brother, Carlton “Muscles” Wilson, and Assemblyman Arthur Barclay, Gilbert “Whip” Wilson told a gathering of KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy student-athletes: “These are Camden stories.”
While other stories out of Camden within the last week dealt with murder and mayhem, the mood inside the school, an oasis in a neighborhood pocked with abandoned homes and empty lots, was happy — and hungry.